{"id":470319,"date":"2025-06-05T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/jce-discards-automated-voting-for-the-2028-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:20:47","slug":"jce-discards-automated-voting-for-the-2028-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/jce-discards-automated-voting-for-the-2028-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE discards automated voting for the 2028 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/jce.gob.do\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jce.gob.do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Central Electoral Board<\/strong> (<strong>JCE<\/strong>)<\/a> ruled out the possibility of implementing <strong>automated voting<\/strong> or electronic voting in the 2028 elections, because the regulations do not contemplate it.<\/p>\n\n\nIn response to a communication from the political delegate of the party <strong>Fuerza del Pueblo (FP)<\/strong>, Manuel Crespo, who in a communication, dated May 28, 2025, expressed concerns related to the <strong>use of technology<\/strong> in the upcoming electoral processes, the Plenary made it clear that &#8220;<strong>electronic voting<\/strong> and <strong>automated voting<\/strong> are not provided for in the <strong>Organic Law on the Electoral Regime<\/strong> No. 20-23.&#8221;\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that sense, the JCE maintained that one of the <strong>guiding principles<\/strong> of the <strong>electoral system<\/strong> is legality, in accordance with article 4, numeral 1, of said law, so any initiative that implies the adoption of voting technologies must strictly adhere to that legal framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/jce-unifica-actas-del-estado-civil-en-un-solo-formato-a-partir-del-1-de-julio-de-2025\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/jce-unifica-actas-del-estado-civil-en-un-solo-formato-a-partir-del-1-de-julio-de-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JCE unifies civil status records in a single format starting July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, the JCE affirmed that any voting method must have the\u00a0<strong>prior consensus of the recognized parties, groupings, and political movements<\/strong>, always guaranteeing the\u00a0<strong>legality<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>legitimacy<\/strong>\u00a0of the electoral process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The Central Electoral Board (JCE) ruled out the possibility of implementing automated voting or electronic voting in the 2028 elections, because the regulations do not contemplate it. In response to a communication from the political delegate of the party Fuerza del Pueblo (FP), Manuel Crespo, who in a communication, dated May 28, 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":470320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41096,41097,40598],"class_list":["post-470319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-central-electoral-board-jce","tag-electronic-voting","tag-peoples-force"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YlN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/img-900900p416EDNmainimg-fachada.JPG1_.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/img-900900p416EDNmainimg-fachada.JPG1_.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}